This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 554 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 554 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The English theoretical physicist Paul Dirac is described as having made fundamental contributions to the early development of what? A) Theory of superconductivity. B) The discovery of the tau lepton and neutrino. C) Quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics. D) Theories on the expansion of the universe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics. 2. Which military bugle call is traditionally played to get soldiers out of bed? A) First Call. B) Reveille. C) Attention. D) The Rouse. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Rouse. 3. What is one of the strongest bones in the animal kingdom? A) Rhinoceros femur. B) Crocodile skull. C) Orca jawbone. D) Walrus baculum. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhinoceros femur. 4. Which of these countries has a coastline on the Persian Gulf? A) Egypt. B) Qatar. C) Yemen. D) Lebanon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Qatar. 5. Glaucoma affects which part of the body? A) Eye. B) Ear. C) Nose. D) Throat. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Eye. 6. In what sport is "touché" said to signify that an opponent has scored a hit? A) Fencing. B) Boxing. C) Darts. D) Soccer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fencing. 7. Which of these is not the name of one of King Lear's children, according to Shakespeare's play "King Lear" ? A) Cordelia. B) Regan. C) Goneril. D) Carter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Carter. 8. Why, during World War I, were some munition workers nicknamed "canary girls" or simply "canaries" ? A) They sang to ensure that they didn't bump into each other when their vision was obscured. B) They wore yellow overalls. C) Handling TNT can cause the skin to turn bright yellow-orange. D) They did most of their work in blast-proof cages. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Handling TNT can cause the skin to turn bright yellow-orange. 9. Which of these dogs was the main character in Jack London's book, "The Call of the Wild" ? A) Rin Tin Tin. B) White Fang. C) Buck. D) Lassie. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Buck. 10. When was the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) created? A) 1945. B) 1947. C) 1957. D) 1942. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1947. 11. Carl Lewis won 9 Olympic gold medals. He won his first in what year? A) 1980. B) 1984. C) 1998. D) 1992. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1984. 12. What other well-known work was written by the author of "Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes" ? A) Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. B) Ode to a Nightingale. C) Ode to the Little China Man. D) The Naming of Cats. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. 13. What was "the stews" another word for? A) Cookery. B) A lot of upset. C) An area of brothels. D) The steward's cabin. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An area of brothels. 14. Which 1983 arcade game is recognised as the first of the genre known as "Olympic" video games? A) Olympic Gold. B) Track and Field. C) Enduro. D) Gyruss. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Track and Field. 15. Who was Geronimo? A) A tight rope walker. B) An Apache military leader and shaman. C) An Italian politician. D) An Inuit leader. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An Apache military leader and shaman. 16. Who played Neil, the hippie, clinically depressed, pacifist, vegetarian and environmentalist who is victimised by other housemates in the UK TV series "The Young Ones" ? A) Rik Mayall. B) Adrian Edmondson. C) Nigel Planer. D) Christopher Ryan. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nigel Planer. 17. What chemical materials does the process of photosynthesis depend on? A) Carbon dioxide and water. B) Oxygen and water. C) Carbon and hydrogen. D) Oxygen and nitrogen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Carbon dioxide and water. 18. A 2015 US TV series centred on high school guidance counsellor Madison Clark, her boyfriend and family is a prequel to what 2010 series? A) Breakout. B) The Defenders. C) The Walking Dead. D) Diva. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Walking Dead. 19. What was the name of a set of 3 treaties signed between the USA and the Kiowa, Comanche, Plains Apache, Southern Cheyenne and Southern Arapaho between 21 and 28 October 1867, requiring them to relocate to areas in present-day western Oklahoma? A) The Treaty of the Five Tribes. B) The Oklahoma Settlement. C) The Medicine Lodge Treaty. D) The Native American Debacle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Medicine Lodge Treaty. 20. What did the short-lived 1848 revolutions in the Romanian principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia call for? A) Pension reform. B) Independence from the Ottoman Empire. C) Secession from Romania. D) Land reform, and emancipation of peasants. 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